# 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 / Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — 第三十五条 (Article 35)

- Law: 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 (Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life), 平成二十七年法律第六十四号
- English title "Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第三十五条 (Article 35) — address `art-35`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-35
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-35
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### 第三十五条
<sup>art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-35</sup>

**第一項**  次の各号のいずれかに該当する者は、一年以下の拘禁刑又は五十万円以下の罰金に処する。
<sup>art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-35/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-35/par-1</sup>
A person who falls under any of the following items is punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or a fine of not more than 500,000 yen:
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **一**  第二十二条第四項の規定に違反して秘密を漏らした者
  <sup>art-35/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-35/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-35/par-1/item-1</sup>
  any person who has divulged secrets in violation of the provisions of Article 22, paragraph (4); or
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **二**  第二十八条の規定に違反して秘密を漏らした者
  <sup>art-35/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-35/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-35/par-1/item-2</sup>
  any person who has divulged secrets in violation of the provisions of Article 28.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-35/par-1/item-1: 第二十二条第四項 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第二十二条第四項 (Article 22, paragraph (4)), art-22/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-22/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-22/par-4
- art-35/par-1/item-2: 第二十八条 → 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 第二十八条 (Article 28), art-28 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/womens-engagement-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/427AC0000000064/art-28

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/427AC0000000064/20261001_507AC0000000063), retrieved 2026-10-19
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on the Promotion of Women's Active Engagement in Professional Life — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4163/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch womens-engagement-act-20261019T013854-001, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 201 — 女性の職業生活における活躍の推進に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19
